Robin Rhode
Stone Flag
Wikipedia - "Working predominantly with everyday material like charcoal, chalk and paint, Rhode started out creating performances that are based on his own drawings of objects that he interacts with. He expanded and refined this practice into creating photography sequences and digital animations."
Wikipedia, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Walker Art, Toxel
Alberto Korda
"Korda had two main passions in life: his photography which the world saw, and his passion for women which his friends and colleagues saw. Korda also loved fashion – mainly because of the beautiful models, however fashion photography was not a custom at that time in Cuba, so Korda began his photography career taking photos for advertisements."
Alberto Korda, Wikipedia, ArtScene
Sicilian Defence
Miguel Najdorf
Wikipedia - "The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4."
Wikipedia, W - Najdorf Variation, W - Dragon Variation
Grolier Poetry Bookshop
Wikipedia - "The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ('Grolier's') is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a 'fine-arts' bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry."
Wikipedia, W - Elsa Dorfman, The Poetry Porch
Wikipedia, W - Elsa Dorfman, The Poetry Porch
The Internet Bird Collection
Slate-crowned Antpitta
Ferran Gil - "This will give access to uploading videos and photos (sound recordings will come soon)! As we are still in beta, some functionalities are not as good as they will be, so please be patient and let us know if you find any problems."
IBC
Ferran Gil - "This will give access to uploading videos and photos (sound recordings will come soon)! As we are still in beta, some functionalities are not as good as they will be, so please be patient and let us know if you find any problems."
IBC
Film noir
Wikipedia - "Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia (1), Film Noir: Foundation, Film noir Studies, The Criterion Collection, Crime Culture, Film Noir and Neo-Noir
Debbie Fleming Caffery
Darius Himes - "Mexico is a misunderstood land steeped in paradoxes. The depth of culture and richness of family and landscape is lost under a cloak of poverty and modern economic distress, breeding misunderstandings and stereotypes that are rarely questioned."
Debbie Fleming Caffery
Debbie Fleming Caffery
John Everett Millais
Ophelia, 1852
Wikipedia - "Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood."
Wikipedia
Zineb Sedira
Self Portraits or the Trinity (2000)
"How to negotiate different worlds is the overriding question in Zineb Sedira’s work, worlds that collide and conflict. It is precisely her Algerian heritage and her experience of living in London and France that gives Zineb’s work insight into these different worlds."
Zineb Sedira, 24 Hour Museum
"How to negotiate different worlds is the overriding question in Zineb Sedira’s work, worlds that collide and conflict. It is precisely her Algerian heritage and her experience of living in London and France that gives Zineb’s work insight into these different worlds."
Zineb Sedira, 24 Hour Museum
Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama
Natalia Goncharova, 1881-1962
"There have been only a handful of periods in world cultural history when the theater was the leading form-Athens of the 5th century BC, Elizabethan England, and Russia/the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s."
Northwestern University Dept. of Slavic Languages and Liberatures
"There have been only a handful of periods in world cultural history when the theater was the leading form-Athens of the 5th century BC, Elizabethan England, and Russia/the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s."
Northwestern University Dept. of Slavic Languages and Liberatures
Kurt Kuenne
IMDb - "Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films. He grew up in Silicon Valley, where he began making films as soon as he was old enough to pick up a camera."
IMDb, Dear Zachary, YouTube, (1), veoh
IMDb, Dear Zachary, YouTube, (1), veoh
Yoko Ono
aiu: a yoko ono - "By the mid-1960s Yoko Ono was an established figure in the underground art scene; she had begun performing musical pieces, presented events with a loosely affiliated group of artists who worked under the name Fluxus, published a book of instructional poems entitled Grapefruit (e.g. "Hammer a nail in the center of a piece of glass. Send a fragment to an arbitrary address."), and was making films."
aiu: a yoko ono, Wikipedia, IK!, SFMOMA, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2)
aiu: a yoko ono, Wikipedia, IK!, SFMOMA, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2)
Leah Evans
Development
"My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: appliqué, reverse appliqué, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work."
Leah Evans
"My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: appliqué, reverse appliqué, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work."
Leah Evans
Painting in Nature around 1800
Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1788
"This exhibition focuses on the practice of painting sur le motif—in nature—as it developed in Europe during the late 1700s and early 1800s."
The Getty
Amarna Project
"The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or simply Amarna) was the short-lived capital built by the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1332 BCE). It was here that he pursued his vision of a society dedicated to the cult of one god, the power of the sun (the Aten)."
Amarna Project
Amarna Project
April Gornik
"I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful."
April Gornik
Three Belgian Autochromists
Woman and girl by a brook - c. 1910. Corbet.
"The subject of these lectures focused on the autochromes of Charles Corbet, Paul Sano and Alfonse Van Besten."
Three Belgian Autochromists
"The subject of these lectures focused on the autochromes of Charles Corbet, Paul Sano and Alfonse Van Besten."
Three Belgian Autochromists
UBU: Pina Bausch
Directed by Anna Linsel, Germany, 2006. "Before choreographer Pina Bausch and her Tanz-theater Wuppertal were known around the world, her new, unusual and body language ill-received." Germany...
UBU
UBU
Henry Cowell
Wikipedia - "Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 - December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario."
Wikipedia, Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic, University Libraries Music Library
Wikipedia, Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic, University Libraries Music Library
Protecting the Word: Bookbidings of the Morgan
Roger Bartlett Mosaic Binding
"Begun energetically by Pierpont Morgan himself before the turn of the twentieth century, the collection has grown to over 1,000 volumes."
The Morgan Library & Museum
"Begun energetically by Pierpont Morgan himself before the turn of the twentieth century, the collection has grown to over 1,000 volumes."
The Morgan Library & Museum
White Nights: Russia After the Gulag
"Two years later, the Bolsheviks sentenced 70,000 men, women and children to corrective Labour Camps, as they were now called."
Donald Weber
Donald Weber
The Flatiron Building
"Designed by the Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, known for his skyscraper, this steel-framed terra-cotta and stone-clad skyscaper represents this developers' first (and ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to create a new business center north of Wall Street."
New York Architecture
New York Architecture
Christmas under Fire (1941)
"All of the fims available to view here are from the BFI National Archive - the world's largest and most diverse film and TV archive."
YouTube
YouTube
Clare Leighton
Loading, 1931
Wikipedia - "Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (1899-1989) was an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings."
Wikipedia, Artwork, Paramour Fine Arts
Wikipedia, Artwork, Paramour Fine Arts
Florin Ion Firimita
The Summer You Turned Into a Butterfly
"The journeys are soul searching. I never view a piece of art by Florin and walk away unchanged. I've had a conversation. We've exchanged important ideas. His works of art make me think more carefully about the work of living."
artspan
"The journeys are soul searching. I never view a piece of art by Florin and walk away unchanged. I've had a conversation. We've exchanged important ideas. His works of art make me think more carefully about the work of living."
artspan
Alex Kanevsky
"The life cycle of a wave is measured in seconds, and because of that each painting is not an image of a particular wave, but a cumulative image of waves observed over several days in various conditions."
Alex Kanevsky
ICE: A Victorian Romance
William Hulme Hooper, The Months among the Tants of the Tuski, 1853
"In 1818, the British began infatuation with the Arctic. It started innocently enough, with the Admiralty trying to find an outlet for naval officers and seamen who had been idled by the end of the Napoleonic wars."
A Victorian Romance
"In 1818, the British began infatuation with the Arctic. It started innocently enough, with the Admiralty trying to find an outlet for naval officers and seamen who had been idled by the end of the Napoleonic wars."
A Victorian Romance
Runa Islam
White Cube - "Runa Islam makes film and video installations that use overlapping layers of narrative to explore notions to truth and fiction, subjectivity and authorship."
White Cube, Tate, Wikipedia
White Cube, Tate, Wikipedia
William S. Burroughs's "The Junky's Christmas"
Guardian - "Wading through the sentimental seasonal schlock online, we fell on this moody, gritty little yuletide masterpiece for blessed relief."
Guardian - (1), (2)
Guardian - (1), (2)
Bernadette Mayer
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Botticelli, The Banquet in the Pinewoods
Met Museum - "This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects creates to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance."
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Met Museum - "This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects creates to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance."
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Silent Night
Wikipedia - "Silent Night (Stille Night, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol."
Wikipedia, another 120 languages, English (Sinead O'Connor), German, Irish (Enya), Arapaho (Jana Mashonnee), Russian, Norwegian, Spanish (Gloria Estefan). Simon & Garfunkel, Bing Crosby, Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash and Friends, Tammy Wynette, Cats. Merry Xmas ... twoleftfeet.
Six Degrees of Barack Obama
TIME - "Though he never appeared in Footloose, Barack Obama does have connections to every one of his Person of the Year predecessors, from initial Charles Lindbergh (1927) to inanimats like the Personal Compoter (1982) and the Earth (1988)."
TIME, Wikipedia, Cafe Press
Robert Bresson
Wikipedia - "Robert Bresson .. (September 25, 1901 - December 18, 1999) was a French film diretor known for his spiritual, ascetic style."
Wikiipedia, Robert Bresson, senses of cinema
Theo Ellsworth
"Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught artist living in Portland, Oregon. He writes and draws comics, makes art zings, draws constantly, and on occasion, teaches workshops."
Art Capacity
Year by Year 1930-1931
James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), Evening Attire
"After World War I, architects in Europe and the US were full of new ideas. They now thought of buildings not only only as prototypes for the future of architecture but also as an integral part of their surroundings, whether rural, suburban, or urban."
Art of the 20th Century
Man Ray
Spanish Hands
Wikipedia - "Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal."
Wikipedia, artnet, Art Minimal & Conceptual Only, PBS
Wikipedia - "Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal."
Wikipedia, artnet, Art Minimal & Conceptual Only, PBS
Art and China's Revolution
Asia Society - "The exhibition brings together large-scale oil paintings, ink paintings, sculptures, drawings and artist sketchbooks, woodblock prints, posters, and objects from everyday life, many never before shown in the United States."
Art and China's Revolution, The Brooklyn Rail
Art and China's Revolution, The Brooklyn Rail
Auguste Rodin
The Kiss
Wikipedia - "Auguste Rodin (born Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin; 12 November 1840- 17 November 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community."
Wikipedia, Rodin, Rodin Museum
Wikipedia - "Auguste Rodin (born Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin; 12 November 1840- 17 November 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community."
Wikipedia, Rodin, Rodin Museum
Akhetaten
Dynasty XVIII
"Descending the Nile, as we follow its flow from south to north, we leave Thebes behind. After adimiring the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, the sanctuaries of Osiris at Abydos, the Coptic monasteries at Sohag, we arrive at Tell el Amarna, on the east bank of the Nile."
Tell El-Amarna, Capital of the Disk, MFA, The Lost City of the Pharaohs
"Descending the Nile, as we follow its flow from south to north, we leave Thebes behind. After adimiring the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, the sanctuaries of Osiris at Abydos, the Coptic monasteries at Sohag, we arrive at Tell el Amarna, on the east bank of the Nile."
Tell El-Amarna, Capital of the Disk, MFA, The Lost City of the Pharaohs
Jean Tinguely
Baluba III
Wikipedia - "He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics."
Wikipedia, Museum Tinguely, YouTube, (1), (2)
Wikipedia, Museum Tinguely, YouTube, (1), (2)
FC Barcelona
Wikipedia - "There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game beween FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF is known El Clasico. From the start the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival countries in Spain, Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities themselves."
Wikipedia, FC Barcelona
Wikipedia, FC Barcelona
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Arthur Tress
Wikipedia - "The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s."
Wikipedia, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine
Eric Aho
White Turn in the River
Peter Campion - "Aho dwells in the borderland between self and world, and he attends to its shifting weather with a fierce subtlety."
Eric Aho, Tory Folliard Gallery, artnet
Peter Campion - "Aho dwells in the borderland between self and world, and he attends to its shifting weather with a fierce subtlety."
Eric Aho, Tory Folliard Gallery, artnet
David Lynch
Wikipedia - "David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, cartoonist, composer, video and performance artist."
Wikipedia, David Lynch, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia, David Lynch, YouTube, (1)
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